Tag: Women in Science
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Overcoming Gender Inequality in Academia: Spotlight on Women Principal Investigators in Clinical Science
by Candice L. Dwyer, Virginia Tech While women account for over half of all PhDs, they comprise only 20-33% of tenured faculty (Houser, 2019). Women researchers have a smaller research footprint, lagging behind men in grant awards, publications, citation impact of first author publications, length of authorship history, and collaboration network sizes, including number of co-authors…
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Tips for Getting a Predoctoral NRSA: Perspective from a Woman Scientist (and Her Imposter Syndrome)
by Parisa Kaliush, University of Utah If you’re like me, you entered your clinical psychology doctoral program with serious doubts about your potential as a researcher. As a woman-identified graduate student, I was acutely aware of longstanding wage and status disparities between men and women psychologists. I convinced myself that I would earn my Ph.D., become…